Gloria.TV News on the 29th of January 2014

Complicated Elections: The Legionaries of Christ are not unanimous about what their new course should look like. One focal point for this tension during the ongoing general chapter is whether the legacy of their disgraced founder should continue to be banished. The present general chapter has no firm end date but it is expected to last into February. Sixty-one priests from 10 countries are taking part.

Catholics Killed: Islamic insurgents murdered at least 62 Christians in northeast Nigeria. They killed 22 Catholics by setting off bombs and firing into the congregation in the Catholic church in Waga Chakawa in Adamawa state on Sunday, before burning houses and taking residents hostage during a four-hour siege. On Monday, a separate assault killed at least 40 people in Kawuri, in remote northeastern Borno state. The spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Yola, Father Raymond Danbouye, confirmed 22 people killed in the church were buried at a funeral on Monday.

Writing to the Pope: Thirty postbags containing some thousand letters, parcels, pictures and objects addressed personally to the Pope reach the Vatican every week. They are handled by the Pope’s Ufficio di Corrispondenza where one monsignor, one sisters and two female assistants work.

Catholic Martyr: The well known Catholic lawyer and dissident, imprisoned in northern Vietnam after being sentenced to 30 months for an alleged "tax evasion", will be judged on appeal on February 8. After the initial sentencing Le was held in a cell with 24 fellow prisoners, half of them in jail for drugs. He is only allowed to read two Communist newspapers. Books, including the Bible, are forbidden.